Quotes About Reflection

Cuando se festejaba mi cumpleaños en medio de las mismas caras, en los mismos lugares, con la misma canción repetida en coro, me asaltaba invariablemente la idea de que esto sólo difería del cumpleaños anterior en la aparición de una vela más sobre un pastel cuyo sabor era idéntico al de la vez pasada.

I asked myself whether, in bygone days, men had longed for bygone days as I, this summer morning, longed for certain ways of life that man had lost forever.

Time does nothing but hand you down shabbier and older things.

If you find yourself asking: How did I get here? Isador once said, that probably means you are living a life worth living.

I take picture because i like to look at the pictures I take. It seems to me that when people take a picture of something, they instantly forget about it. They can look at the picture and remind themselves.

Znaš", zamišljeno je rekao Pronek, "mislim da gdje god ti je dom postoji i barica po kojoj znaš da li pada kiša." "Kako to misliš?" "Ono, kad pogledaš kroz prozor i ne znaš da li pada i onda pogledaš svoju baricu i onda znaš." "Da, znam. To je lepo." "Ja sam imao svoju baricu u Sarajevu, ispred ku?e.

If there are more dead than living, then the world is about death, and the question is: What are we to do with all the death? Who is going to remember all the dead?

Escribir no vale de nada si no acarrea la agotadora e irresoluble carga de las decisiones sin consecuencia alguna.

Hence Joshua giggled to himself: life appeared to him exactly like the joint burning inexorably toward his fingertips—once it's smoked it cannot be unsmoked.

When the mind imagines its own lack of power, it is saddened by it.

They say, as the gardener, so the garden.

Only the past matters, because it is the only thing that outlives everything and everyone.

We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

Kuka käsittää tämän maailman rakennusta? Ei ihmislapsi, joka on typerä ja tyhmä kuin määkivä jäärä. Mutta parasta ottaa päivä tultuansa, sallia sen mennä mentyänsä, käyköön sitten puuhun tai mäntyyn. Täällä ollaan vaan.

The thing (as one) no longer throws its shadow upon another thing; instead, it throws its shadow upon itself, thus becoming, at the same time, the thing and its shadow. When the sun is at its zenith, things are not simply exposed ("naked", as it were); they are, so to speak, dressed in their own shadows.

Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say

Accadono cose che sono come domande. Passa un minuto, oppure anni, e poi la vita risponde.

Reasons get forgotten.

Ogni tanto mi chiedo che cosa stiamo aspettando? -Che sia troppo tardi.

Certainly the heart has always something to tell about the future to those who listen to it. But what does the heart know? Scarce a little of what has already happened.

Si potrebbe però, tanto nelle cose piccole, come nelle grandi, evitare, in gran parte, quel corso così lungo e così storto, prendendo il metodo proposto da tanto tempo, d'osservare, ascoltare, paragonare, pensare, prima di parlare. Ma parlare, questa cosa così sola, è talmente più facile di tutte quell'altre insieme, che anche noi, dico noi uomini in generale, siamo un po' da compatire.

Il cuor mi dice che ci rivedremo presto. - Certo, il cuore, chi gli dà retta, ha sempre qualche cosa da dire su quello che sarà. Ma che sà il cuore? Appena un poco di quello che è già accaduto.

Aquel Dios del que había oído hablar, pero que, desde hacía largo tiempo, no se preocupaba de negar ni de reconocer, dedicado solamente a vivir como si no existiera, ahora, en ciertos momentos de abatimiento sin motivo, de terror sin peligro, le parecía oírlo gritar dentro de sí: Yo existo